Chandos
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the early Quartet is a remarkable creation, with its searching chromaticism, huge technical strength, and formidable finale...The Doric Quartet play both works with an ultra-focused vividness... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Mozart: The Piano Quartets
Francesca Dego (violin), Timothy Ridout (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Federico Colli (piano)
All four musicians here are star soloists in their own rights, but there's no sense of jostling egos in these warmly collegiate performances - just the sense of ideas being exchanged in the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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…a vital, vividly scored and eventually stirring piece. When d'Indy escapes from his determination to build most of it from the same two themes, he comes up with moments of breathtaking poetry... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Glazunov: Commemorative Cantata Op. 65, etc.
Ludmila Kuznetsova (mezzo-soprano), Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Valeri Polyansky
Glazunov's Symphony No 8 opens confidently and lyrically, conductor Valéry Polyansky maintaining an easy-going momentum, later pressing forward, yet always holding the argument together. There's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2003, Editor's Choice
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Frank Martin: Les quatre éléments & In terra pax
Della Jones (contralto), Judith Howarth (soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Stephen Roberts (bass)
Brighton Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Matthias Bamert
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Engineering
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Stravinsky: Symphony No. 1, Symphony in C and other orchestral works
RecommendedNash Ensemble, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Simon Rattle, Sir Alexander Gibson, Neeme Jarvi
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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All these pieces… are vividly performed by the London Mozart Players, while pianist Howard Shelley throws off Hummel's copious cascade of notes with appropriate panache. —
